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The Smithsonian’s Patriotism Problem

“Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.”

That’s a disclaimer every entrance to the National Museum of American History ought to display, according to a new report by the White House excoriating the Smithsonian Institution and its flagship museum.

But it doesn’t take a 160-page report to show what’s wrong with the Smithsonian—just walk into any of its museums.

With a bit of time on my hands in the Chinatown area of Washington, D.C., last year, I decided to take a stroll through the National Portrait Gallery.

The art is as magnificent as ever, but it seemed every historical portrait had to be accompanied by two sets of explanatory text: one talking about the portrait itself, the other describing its subject’s connection to slavery, however distant.

For the Smithsonian’s leadership, it often seems less like slavery is a part of American history—an important and awful part, to be sure—than American history is part of the story of slavery.

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That casual impression from the National Portrait Gallery is confirmed by the White House Domestic Policy Council’s report “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage.”

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